Wierdest thing you've ever seen

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Brand new cars parked in front of seedy apartments in the ‘welfare’ district.

Black women coming in to use the free services of the Public Health Department (you have to be poor or on some form of assistance to qualify) parking new cars in the lot and chatting on cell phones on the way in.

My cross-eyed Siamese cat chasing and actually getting a squirrel in the front yard with a swipe of his paw – then being so astonished that he got what he went after that he backed off, laid down in the grass and watched as the unhurt squirrel got up and hopped away.

Finding an ‘abandoned house’ chock full of the previous owners things i.e.; clothing, furniture, books, dishes, and so on. The doors were unlocked and the grass high and no one had lived there in months. (I found out later that the single occupant had died and the county was trying to locate a living relative.)

Finding the vertebrae from a whale in a field on a friends ranch. A whole bunch of them. I thought I’d found dinosaur bones. It turns out that the previous owner of the place actually had hauled a whale up there and butchered it out. (I have no idea how or why or even how the heck he had caught it.)

Finding the remains of a 50 foot ferry tug pulled up in the trees along the river, something like 40 years after the ferry service had ended.

Being in a boat with friends and coming around the bend in the river and seeing, moored offshore from some rich guys house, one of the last of the steel hulled schooners in the world. She was rusty as hell, but impressive.

Finding a small, two person sailboat rotting in the weeds behind an abandoned house.

Walking along the beach and stumbling on an old, single story CBS house just yards from the wave line, hidden mostly by palmettos.

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Deja Vu! Same thing happened to me. Except, the dog was outside at the time. The poor squirrel gets up and runs over to the tree, but stops about three feet up. He is sitting there still twitching from the fall when the dog decides that he wants lunch. The dog takes off running at the tree. The squirrel comes to his senses just as the dog gets there. Squirrel dodges up the tree another three feet. The dog runs into the tree and nearly brains himself. So I end up with two animals, one in the tree and one on the ground, that are twitching and staggering like drunks.

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Do steam-powered origami animals count?

Those things can give you really wicked papercuts.

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The wierdest thing that I ever saw was ChiefScott actually posting a smilie in one of his posts. :D:D

[hangs head in shame for bringing it up again]

Ya’, I know Chief, today I’m the hydrant, AGAIN. :D:D (oops)

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In the Fall of 1983, I was attending the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. I went out from my dorm room for an early Sunday morning walk.

An attractive young woman in a sweatshirt was out walking , too.

She was carrying a orangutan.

The ape’s name is Chantek. The Anthropology Dept. had taught him to “speak” American Sign Language for the deaf.

He fingered my sweater, and signed to his handler “blue-warm -furry-soft-blanket”; his description of my sweater.

The Discovery Channel put a brand-new documentary about him on TV recently. He is currently living in the Atlanta Zoo.

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I just remembered another one.

I was waiting to get a soda at one of the snack counters inside of a store, like a Kmart or Walmart or somesuch. The woman ahead of me was quizzing the kid behind the counter on how they prepared food. She kept asking him if various things were deep-fat-fried. I thought she was trying to watch what she ate, or something. Until I finally heard her decide and she asked the guy to take her hotdog and DEEP FAT FRY it. Uuuuuuuuugh.

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This might not be the absolute wierdest thing I;ve ever seen but it’s one ofthem and the most resent. My son left the house and promply came back in and announced “My car is full of bees!” I went outside and sure enough his car was full of bees. I’m not talking about a few bees. there were way too many to even make a good guess. He and I are both mildly allergic to bees so you can imagine how freaked out we both were.

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Hey, Wring, I just wanted to pop in here and say, no toes being stepped on. This is exactly what I was looking for in that thread, but it kinda disintegrated. Oh well.

Have fun!

–Tim

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well, this one might not really count because my sister was the one to see it, but it’s a good story anyway. She claims that she walked into our foyer one day to find all the cats gathered around in a circle as if they were having a meeting. Just to confirm that, as soon as she came in they gave her nasty looks and immediately got up as if nothing had happened. I’ve always suspected they’re plotting to take over the house.
-Lil

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Not to doubt your story - but was he a baby orangutan at the time? An orangutan is a pretty large animal for anyone to carry.

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when I was about 7, I was travaling with my family down I95 to my grandparents place in Miami, when we passes this station wagon (one of the bigger ones, this happend in the early 70’s) that was packed full of presents and was driven by this large fellow with red pants and shirt, white hair and beard. and it was christmas eve. makes one believe in Santa Claus

and just recently I saw this mercedees on its side in the median between 2 trees, no other vehicls around, just the Saudi driver talking on his cell phone standing next to it. I’m stationed in Saudi right now. It looked like a crain placed the car there, with the lack of damage to the surounding area.

maybe later I talk about stuff from Turkiye

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When I was going to school in Boston, there was this homeless guy who hung around Kenmore Square who’d stand around pretending to play a vaguely guitar-shaped sheet of cardboard.

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I used to work for my father in the antique business that he ran here in Florida. We would travel to major “shows” all over the country to set up and sell antiques and collectibles.

Anyway, we are sitting in Nashville, around 5:30 in the morning, at a Denny’s breakfast bar. Having a discussion centering around “Does God have a sense of humor?”…

The usual fare regarding the giraffe, and the duckbilled platypus ensued. Just then, a family walks in the door. Two tall skinny kids first, then the husband, probably 6’3" and could not have weighed over 160lbs. The wife is the last one in the door, 5’5" or so, and probably 450lbs at a guess. I caught myself thinking that this was one odd looking family unit. Just as they pass our table, the wife, wheezing and puffing from the exertion of walking from the car, yells out to her husband “Take that table right there! I won’t have to walk as far to get the food!”

Simultaneously, on the piped-in Muzak, the Baby Elephant March begins. Dad and I look over at each other, and both say “Yeah, he does” in two part harmony…

O

vidi vici veni!

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First off I want to reply to CrankyAsAnOldMan and his post about the Basset/bloodhound cross. We got a stray dog in 1977 that my Dad picked up at a local parking lot. In color, coat and head shape it looked just like a Golden Lab but in body shape it was like a Basset Hound. Sounded like one too when it bayed at sirens. It kind of looked like a Lab with it’s leggs cut off, long and low. We named him Fred after Jerry Reed’s dog in Smoky and the Bandit, which came out that summer.

But the wierd thing I saw was in 1983, at the O’Hare airport in Chicago. I was at school in the city, and had come out to see a friend from homewhile they were between planes. There’s this unremarkable couple sitting there, late middle-age, looking for all the world like somebody’s grandparents. Guess they got bored because she got up, took a pair of cuticle scissors, and started clipping the hair in his ears! Not satisfied with THAT, when finished she got him to tilt his head back and clipped the hair in his nose!!! Gack!

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I don’t know if this is weird as much as it was funny.

One day my family and I were at this out-door shopping center. The place was very crowded so there was little room to walk. We were sitting at a table when a woman with a small child walked by. Right behind her was a man with two cups of soda. As they walk along he seems to be looking for the rest of his party (he is not with the women) when suddenly the women in front of him stops to tye the kids shoe. Since he wasn’t paying attention he proceeded to run into her and pour the sodas down her back.

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Yeah, finn. But he’s full grown now! When I saw him on Discovery, I was amazed at the size he had reached!

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A couple of months ago, I was at a regular dive in Houston (Lola’s), Drinking beer outside in a fenced-in area. The fence cought on fire from a cigarette butt, I guess. Me and my buddies noticed it. Gary went inside to tell them. I went to the little fire and poured my beer on it, then a bunch of us kicked the glowing wood out. Another couple of minutes and it would have been a big fire. I should have pressed for a couple of free beers (my dad suggested that when I told him) but I was so surprised I did not think about that.

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I have seen WEIRD. I have ridden the GREYHOUND! :smiley:

Weird Greyhound experience #1:

In the Las Vegas bus terminal. I don’t know if they’ve remodeled/changed locations, but a few years ago the Vegas terminal was cramped. Not too many seats, people often seen leaning against walls, sitting on floors. And yet I see this one row of seats that is almost empty. Except for one guy. He appears to be in 20s/30s, dark-skinned (like maybe Middle Eastern?) and he is wearing some sort of weird all-black outfit. He is also wearing some sort of black turban thing, with LOTS of tin foil wrapped in it. (To presumably ward off the Venus Rays?) He has foil in his shoes, and other parts of his outfit. Sort of like tin-foil trim. And he has put this black eye makup on. LOTS of it. Just like a racoon. (Really!)

I thought I’d just sit on the floor, thank you very much.

Weird Greyhound experience #2:

In the evening, we change bus drivers. (This is on a different trip than the one with the Venus Rays guy.) The new driver introduces himself over the loudspeaker, yadda yadda. He then proceeds to go on about the bathroom. He says “I know we have a bathroom back there, but if you have to make a bowel movement, please tell me and I will pull over and find a place for you to take your bowel movement. We all know that taking a bowel movement on the bus’s bathroom will just stink everything up, so please don’t do it on the bus.” He went on and on, repeating the term “Bowel movement” several times. We were all snickering, it was pretty bizarre. (Post script: At one of the scheduled stops, my sister, who was traveling with me, took a “bowel movement” in the spacious gas station bathroom. She was tired and a little too loud, and she said to me “I took my bowel movement! I should tell the bus driver, he will be so happy!” When we left the bathroom we saw the bus driver sitting very near the bathroom door, drinking some coffee. He quite possibly heard my sister, but he never let on.)

OK, I don’t know how bizarre that is, but in context, it is pretty damned funny.

Greyhound weird experience #3:

Traveling from Denver to LA, early morning. We are all dozing, and all of a sudden someone shrieks that something brushed past her feet. More people shriek and say they felt something too. People are standing on their seats. It is chaos, and the poor driver is still driving, not knowing what to do. Finally he stops the bus, and gets it all sorted out. Turns out that one of the passengers had brought a ferret on board, and put it in her bag. It got out somehow. The nice bus driver did not make her get rid of it (what could he do?) Pretty risky thing to do, ferrets are illegal in California.

Non-Greyhound weird thing:

I didn’t SEE it, but saw it on the news. About 6 years ago, on some LA freeway, some film students did an impromptu “show”. A naked guy painted himself red, dressed up in devil garb, (horns, tail, etc.) and stood on the grass on the side of a busy freeway. Naked, red and devily, mind you. He motioned to drivers and looked very devilish, causing much confusion to motorists. The TV news reported on it, saying a “horny red devil invades freeway”. It was quite a hoot. Somewhere I have the news story on tape.

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One summer evening a group of us were driving home from a movie and since it was such a nice night, we decided to stop at an old covered bridge about 15 miles from our house. This bridge is closed to traffic and can only be reached by a foot trail. There were no cars in the lot or any people around anywhere. Then we noticed something glowing in the middle of the bridge. There was a table, chairs and a full celebration set up. Cake, lit candles, bottle of champagne, cards saying congratulations, everything but the partyers. Now this is in a rural setting, at least 10 minutes from the closest small town.We waited around for about 15 minutes but no one showed up :confused:

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I have a friend who was about 21 and well-endowed. She took the Greyhound from New Jersey to Cincinnati. Well, she fell asleep and when she woke up there was this man in the seat next to her asleep with his head on her chest. She let out a scream and this guy jumped up angry at her. His comment was,“Hey I was taking a nap, I thought you were going to be motherly, but no, I guess you are going to keep your breasts all to yourself HUH? Some people are so selfish” Then he got up and changed seats. Indignant.

She said she spent the rest of the trip arguing with herself, out loud.hysterical voice “Stop It!!” “No, you stop it” “I’m warning you, remember what happened last time”? “OK I’ll be good” “Bitch”

People avoided her after that.